Except for administrative costs, Nassau County, which is financially strained, would pay nothing for the program.

"These small designers are always financially strained," Mr. Roberts said.

He feared that farmers would be financially strained if they had to pay royalties every time their patented cows gave birth.

When a third daughter, Anne, was born in 1830, Ainsworth's family began to feel financially strained.

"People are financially strained these days," he said.

The loss from Sept. 11 is coming on an industry where some companies were already financially strained.

But if credit card delinquencies were centered on a narrow group, other data suggest that a larger number of Americans might be strained financially.

Even before the hurricanes, the museum was financially strained and had dipped into its endowment for curatorial positions in order to meet operating expenses.

He is financially strained compared to his wealthy classmates at St. Jude's.

In 1925 de Ropp's father, being financially strained, could not pay for Robert's expensive education and took him from school.

The Weed and Seed proposal makes no provision for helping financially strained departments do so.

This tort tax, as it is called by Michael A. Cardozo, the city's corporation counsel, costs the financially strained city more than half a billion dollars a year.

A1 Germany Revamps Pensions Parliament passed legislation to overhaul the country's financially strained retirement system.

After years of deadlock on the issue, Germany's Parliament passed a ground-breaking law today aimed at overhauling the country's extremely generous but financially strained retirement system.

Perhaps, she wrote, "the financially strained fashion industry is seeking salvation from above."

Karina starred as Nana, an errant mother and aspiring actress whose financially strained circumstances lead her to the life of a streetwalker.

His trip to Rome, however, was postponed until 1806, when the financially strained government finally appropriated the travel funds.

Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla laid off 110 workers this week, a move recommended by a consulting firm to save the financially strained institution $8 million a year.

Although this is a sneaky way to raise premiums, it is hard to argue with the notion that better-off beneficiaries should pay more to help rescue a financially strained program.

As returning vacationers empty their mailboxes of fall department store catalogues and glossy magazines, they may well wonder whether the financially strained fashion industry is seeking salvation from above.